When you lock a computer on windows 7 your login screen appears on your main display and then on other monitors it is completely black, when your displays are extended. This problem is fixed when you ...

I have a list of URLs (pretty much all image urls though some pdf) that I need downloaded. I have found a variety of options for bulk downloading and these would work but I need them to be organized ...

I tried to use below blat command to configure blat in command prompt for sending email alerts.
--blat -install SMPT.XXXXX.com NAG@mail.com
-but is is showing below message
"Blat is not recognized as ...

I have two batch file x.bat and y.bat.
I m calling y.bat from x.bat.
File y.bat sets an env variable like:
set ABC=
Restriction is I cant change this Y.bat file but I want my variable "ABC" to be set ...

I am trying to launch a batch executable, but my PC shows no .bat association in the registry.
Recently, I started off by simply modding my Star Wars: Battlefront 2 game. Eventually, it
asked me to ...

I've got SYSTEMINFO | FIND /I "DOMAIN:" which displays if it's part of a Domain or Workgroup. But I'm trying to figure out how to take the result of that and if it's anything other than Company.LLC to ...

When I double click files of the type .xise, I need my system to execute the following:
C:\Xilinx\14.5\ISE_DS\settings32.bat C:\Xilinx\14.5\ISE_DS\ISE\bin\nt\ise.exe PATH\TO\XISE\FILE\filename.xise
...

I lost my administrator right's in recovery. I learned of the super administrator surfing the net and got access using command line. I got a reply :The syntax of this command is: and then it list's
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We have a computer connected to a large vizio flat screen that displays secure information and it is always on. I have a script running with task scheduler to shut off only the display at a certain ...

I am trying to edit the registry on my windows 8 computer so that I can create a batch(.bat) file from the "new" menu. The only problem is I don't have admin rights. So I was doing some research and ...

A few weeks ago I accidentally changed .bat files to open with Notepad++ (a fairly common issue I believe). On Win XP and Win 7 I had a .reg file that updated the relevant registry keys and sorted out ...

I have written a perl script which i try to call every 1 minute from a batch file.
There is no error but it do not call it every 1 minute. It just pop command prompt when clicked once on .bat file. ...

I have written a .bat file which runs every 10 minute. The problem is now when i want to stop it it never stops. (This .bat file further calls a perl file in the code).
What can be done to kill it ? ...

Can anyone explain why cmd /k clears the command history of my window terminal (CMD).
When I run a batch file within a previously CMD and I put cmd /k at the end of the line, the command history will ...

I'm creating a script to do some repetitious OpenSSL work, but cannot seem to get the batch file to execute the commands.
Once the file has navigated to the correct directory, I try running:
openssl ...

i would like to download pictures from http://myhomepage.com/plots/20150111-03/4711/4712.png every 3 hours. "20150111-03" is variable, rest is stable. That means every 3 hours the download looks like:
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I'm using a program called Irfanview which can merge two images into one using its command line function. Here's an example:
i_view32.exe /panorama=(1,C:\folder1\img1.png,C:\folder2\static_img.png) ...

Complete novice here so please forgive if the answer is obvious.
I have a batch file that does the following.
Starts program 1
Waits 3 seconds (I have to click a button on program 1 after it opens)
...

I am trying to automate chef setup for windows. So I wrote .bat according to this:
call winrm quickconfig -q
call winrm set winrm/config/winrs @{MaxMemoryPerShellMB="300"}
call winrm set winrm/config ...